The best in upcoming fiction and nonfiction, from big-name novelists to provocative newbies.

(April 11)

Sea Change by Gina Chung

Call itMy Octopus Teacher II: Depressive Boogaloo.

Can Ro find a leg (or eight arms) to stand on?

Spring Books Preview

Spring 2023 Books Preview.

Readers ofGone Baby GoneandMystic Riverwill recognize the broad outlines: blue-collar clashes, tenacious detectives, ornery moms.

And how do we shape our own private hierarchies of what we will and won’t accept?

Will it all go to hell in a karmic hand-basket?

Spring Books Preview Charles Frazier, The Trackers

Ecco

Your first two guesses don’t count.

InGuest, she turns her X-ray gaze to Alex, a 22-year-old grifter with more than a littleMr.

Ripley Goes to the Hamptonsin her survival-of-the-fittest schemes and machinations.

Spring Books Preview Gina Chung, Sea Change

Vintage

(May 2)

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

“This is not an advice book.

And I don’t know anything,” Irby’s latest begins.

(May 30)

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